The Aedui ( allies of Rome ) are engaged in a power struggle with two other tribes called the Arverni and the Sequani.

At first the plan works because the German mercenaries help the Arverni and Sequani to oppress their enemy, the Aedui.

But later the plan backfires as Ariovistus begins a violent takeover of the territory of the Arverni and Sequani, exercising a cruel tyranny over them.

The Sequani defeated and massacred the Haedui at the Battle of Magetobriga, with the help of the Arverni tribe and the German Suebi tribe under the Germanic king Ariovistus.

About 62 BC, when a Roman client state, the Arverni, conspired with the Sequani and the Suebi nation east of the Rhine to attack the Aedui, a strong Roman ally, Rome turned a blind eye.

The Sequani and Arverni sought Ariovistus ’ aid and defeated the Aedui in 63 BC in the Battle of Magetobriga.

The Arverni had once been the most powerful tribal hegemony in Gaul during the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC under their king, Luernios, but when his son ( or grandson ) Bituitus was defeated by the Romans in 121 BC, their ascendancy passed to the Aedui and Sequani.

He and his followers took part in a war in Gaul, assisting the Arverni and Sequani to defeat their rivals the Aedui, after which they settled in large numbers in conquered Gallic territory in the Alsace region.

Some time before Caesar's governorship of Gaul ( which began in 58 BC ), the Gaulish Arverni and Sequani enlisted Ariovistus's aid in their war against the Aedui.

They were nearly between their neighbors to the northeast, the Sequani, who occupied the Doubs river valley, and the Arverni in the Massif Central.

Julius Caesar also mentioned the wars that set the Aedui against the Arverni and the Sequani for hegemony over a large part of Gaul.

Even the Aedui, their most faithful supporters, threw in their lot with the Arverni, but the ever loyal Remi ( best known for its cavalry ) and Lingones sent troops to support Caesar.

Arvernus was worshiped in the Rhineland, possibly as a particular deity of the Arverni tribe, though no dedications to Mercurius Arvernus occur in their territory in the Auvergne region of central France.

Caesar surprises the Arverni by arriving in their territory unexpectedly after clearing a path through deep snow.

The first known mention was by the Greek geographer Strabo, who called it the " metropolis of the Arverni " ( meaning their oppidum, civitas or tribal capital ).

The Arverni not only had extended their empire as far as Narbo and the boundaries of Massiliotis, but they were also masters of the tribes as far as the Pyrenees, and as far as the ocean and the Rhenus ( Rhine ).

Unlike the Allobroges, who were brought under direct Roman rule as a result of the Celtic wars of the 120s, the Arverni negotiated a treaty that preserved their independence, though their territory was diminished.

Moreover, they maintained commercial links and military alliances: Rome aided the Aedui in the 2nd century in defeating at Arverni army and rose to their defense against the invasion of the Helvetii that precipitated the Gallic War.

The main struggle ( 58 – 50 BC ) against the Romans came against Julius Caesar under Vercingetorix at Battle of Gergovia ( a city of the Arverni ) and at the Battle of Alesia ( a city of the Mandubii ).

As it turned out, the Cimbri next clashed with the Arverni tribe, and after a hard struggle set out for the Pyrenees instead of immediately marching into Italy.

The name, like the name of the Arverni and of Auvergne, appears to derive from a Proto-Celtic compound adjective * φara-werno-s ‘ in front of alders .’

* 5th century-the son of Avitus, Roman Emperor 455-456, from the Celtic tribe of the Arverni who fought at the Battle of Châlons with the Goths against the Huns introduced falconry in Rome.

Under Luernios, the Arverni was at the head of a formidable Gallic military hegemony which stretched from the Rhine to the Atlantic coast.

The Arverni later played an important role in the Gallic Wars of Julius Caesar from 58 BC to 51 BC.

Auvergne was a province of France deriving its name from the Arverni, a Gallic tribe who once occupied the area, well known for its fierce resistance, led by Vercingetorix, to conquest by the Roman Empire.

It took its name from the Gabali, a Gallic tribe subordinate to the Arverni.

The defeat of the Arverni led directly to the establishment of Gallia Narbonensis as a Roman province, referred to simply as the Provincia so often that a part of the ancient region is today known as Provence.

Aquitania was inhabited by the following tribes: Agesinales, Ambilatri, Anagnutes, Arverni, Ausci, Autobroges, Basabocates, Belendi, Bercorates, Bergerri, Bipedimui, Cadurci, Cambolectri, Camponi, Cocossati, Consoranni, Cubi, Elui |, Elusates, Gabales, Latusates, Lemovices, Mandubii, Monesi, Nitiobriges, Onobrisates, Osquidates, Osquidiales, Petrocorii, Petrogoti, Pictones, Ruteni, Ruthenes, Santoni, Sassumini, Sediboniates, Sennates, Sibyllates, Sottiates, Succasses, Tarbelli, Tolosanes, Uliarus, Vassei, Vellates, Vellavii, Venami, Veneti ( Veneticæ ), Vibisci, Vornates.

It was fought by an army of the Roman Republic commanded by Julius Caesar, aided by cavalry commanders Mark Antony, Titus Labienus and Gaius Trebonius, against a confederation of Gallic tribes united under the leadership of Vercingetorix of the Arverni.

During this period, the Mediterranean settlements on the coast were threatened by the powerful Gallic tribes to the north, especially the tribes known as the Arverni and the Allobroges.

Indeed, after crossing the Pyrenees in 218 BC, Hannibal in travelling through southern Gaul was greeted by warlike tribes: the Volcae, the Arverni, the Allobroges, and the Gaesatae of the Rhône Valley, who rose to prominence around the middle of the 3rd century BC.

Sucellus may also have been thought of as a creator god, and was particularly revered by the Arverni and the Boii.

Issoire ( Iciodurum ) is said to have been founded by the Arverni, and in Roman times rose to some reputation for its schools.

The name is also recorded once as Mercury Arvernorix, ' king of the Arverni '.

In 123 BC, the Roman general Quintus Fabius Maximus ( later additionally named Allobrogicus ) campaigned in the area and defeated the Allobroges and the Arverni under king Bituitus.

After this it became a regular place of detention for important state prisoners, such as Syphax of Numidia, Perseus of Macedonia, Bituitus, king of the Arverni.

Vercingetorix ( or ; ); 82 BC – 46 BC ) was the chieftain of the Arverni tribe, who united the Gauls in an ultimately unsuccessful revolt against Roman forces during the last phase of Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars.

* Vercingetorix, Chieftain of the Arverni ( d. 46 BC )

This conquest upset the ascendancy of the Gaulish Arverni tribe.

But the Arverni tribe, under Chieftain Vercingetorix, still defied Roman rule.

Vercingetorix, a young nobleman of the Arverni, gathers troops, and with the support of neighboring tribes is given supreme command of the Gallic armies.

At first the Bituriges resist, but then join forces with the Arverni.

As more and more Gallic tribes join the rebellion, Caesar reaches his armies in Narbo and begins to move them toward the territory of the Arverni.

** Vercingetorix, an Arverni chieftain, leads a revolt against Caesar in Central Gaul.

* Consul Quintus Fabius Maximus, allied with the Aedui, defeated the Arverni and Allobroges in Transalpine Gaul, thus establishing the province for Rome.

It was somewhere in the area around Nemossos where the Arverni chieftain Vercingetorix ( later to head a unified Gallic resistance to Roman invasion under Julius Caesar ) was born in around 72 BC.

Although the name refers to the Arverni, in whose territory Mercury had at important sanctuary at the Puy-de-Dôme, all of the inscriptions to Mercury Arvernus are found farther away along the Rhenish frontier.

Compare also the title Mercury Dumiatis (' of the Puy-de-Dôme '), found in the territory of the Arverni.

Luerius, the King of the Arverni and the father of Bituitus who warred against Maximus Aemilianus and Dometius, is said to have been so exceptionally rich and extravagant that he once rode on a carriage through a plain, scattering gold and silver coins here and there.